Venezuela Expels U.S. Diplomats as Opposition Pressure Builds

Opposition Leader López Vows to March, Even Though Government Has Ordered His Arrest

By

Ezequiel Minaya and

Juan Forero

Updated Feb. 17, 2014 9:27 p.m. ET

CARACAS, Venezuela—President Nicolás Maduro's government, facing a growing challenge from protesters, on Monday ordered three U.S. diplomats out of the country after accusing them of financing and organizing university students to destabilize the state.

The expulsion orders come amid daily street demonstrations against a government struggling to...